Virginia Madsen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am tone deaf.
-
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
-
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
-
There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
-
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
-
But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
-
When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
-
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
-
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
-
Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
-
I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
-
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
-
I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.
-
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
-
It's basically the same, just darker.
-
Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
-
God looks after children, animals and idiots.
-
Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
-
One of the things that did intrigue me about when I read the pilot - because I had not read the books before doing the show - was the mystery aspect of it. I didn't feel that it was just a crime-based story. It really does have that mystery element, and it felt like a throwback to other shows in the past that had a bit more of that. There was something iconic about it. The fact that it's set in Boston gave it a feeling that was different to me. So, I am definitely more of a fan of mysteries than I am of a circular crime-based genre.
-
In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.
-
I tend to look for a great script.
